Professional Power BI: Data Visualization and Dashboards

Video Learning Path Overview

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Are you wasting time on compiling data from multiple sources instead of analyzing data? If yes, then this course will be your perfect guide and companion to analyze any data with ease!

Tell your data story with Power BI and reach millions of users with a single click on any kind of a device! Using Power BI, you can combine your data sources, create stunning visualizations, and embed your story on your website within seconds saving your cost and time.

In this well thought out step-by-step Learning Path, you'll go from beginner to confident Microsoft PowerBI user with a series of practical sections to help you build out an interactive - functional report and a detailed, insightful dashboard with compelling visualizations to analyze your data more effectively and publish them on PowerBI. You'll take the role of a business analyst and create factful and engaging reports with actionable insights!

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to use Power BI effectively as a business analytics tool to load, pre-process, and model data and create meaningful reports, visualizations, and interactive dashboards.

Key Features

• Use Power BI to gather data, create reports, and get into action within a few minutes.

• Hands-on approach showing you how to create the metrics necessary for data stories.

• Generate interesting interactive visualizations based on your data.

Author Bios

• Reid Havens is the Founder of Havens Consulting Inc. and a Microsoft MVP. He has a formal background in technology and organizational management, having obtained separate Master's Degrees in Organizational Development & Business Analytics. Additionally, he guest lectures at the University of Washington and other universities, teaching Business Intelligence, Reporting, & Data Visualization. Reid is also currently developing multiple online video series on Learning & Mastering Power BI for Packt Publishing.

• Murli Rajpurohit is a data scientist with over a year of experience in the business intelligence domain and passionate about machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. He focuses on combining the best elements of storytelling with Power BI’s interactive capabilities to engage audiences in a new way. His interest lies in learning every aspect of computer vision. He has expert knowledge and hands-on experience of both quantitative and qualitative analysis, data mining, optimization, and database operations, and is proficient in R, SQL, and Python.

• Nikita Barsukov is a software developer and data scientist with 10 years' experience in the industry. He went through a traditional data science path at the beginning of his career—for example, learning R and machine learning algorithms using online courses. Then he also quickly grasped the value of visual data storytelling, using charts as a way to communicate and tell something. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark with his beautiful wife and three awesome sons.

• Peter MacMurchy has been a professional software developer for over 15 years, focusing on UX, UI, and interactive data visualization tools. He acquired a keen interest in information visualization from coursework while studying Computer Graphics for his M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. Since then, he's continued to develop visualization and interactive software for finance, film, energy, and other industries. At Uncharted, Peter helps clients improve their data visualization capabilities on a consulting basis.